Thesis readiness review
.A Thesis Readiness Review is required before you can transfer onto pre-submission registration.
If your Thesis Readiness Review is successful, no further reviews will be required.
What to do for your Thesis Readiness Review
- Step 1. Book a meeting with your Reviewer
-
You will find a Timetable of reviews in your Box folder. If you cannot find it, contact the Research office on FoSEM-PGR@sussex.ac.uk.
Contact your main Reviewer and arrange a time and location for Thesis Readiness Review meeting, taking into account the deadline shown on your Timetable of reviews, and allowing your reviewer sufficient time to check over your review documents (next section).
Book your main Reviewer early because they will be busy! A meeting of 30 to 60 minutes will be required.
- Step 2. Prepare the documents
-
Documents you will need to provide:
- Your thesis in draft form.
- A statement from your reviewer that you are on track.
- Your full Training Record.
- An application to Transfer to Pre-Submission status (download here). You may not need to transfer to pre-submission status if you are planning to submit within your funded period.
- A completed Intention to Submit Thesis form with a Thesis outline attached (download here). Ask your main Supervisor to complete Section B of the form.
- Step 3. During the Interview
-
Your Reviewer will discuss your thesis content and structure, your planned schedule to submission, and any publications that may result from it. They may suggest changes which you should consider carefully, discussing them with your supervisor.
Remind your Reviewer they should write a short statement about your progress and add it to your Box Folder. They should say if they agree you should go onto pre-submission registration.
- Step 4. After the Interview
-
Check that you have uploaded all the documents to your Box folder.
Then send an email to the Research team (FoSEM-PGR@sussex.ac.uk), saying your Thesis Readiness Review is completed.
The team will check that all the documents are present and will inform the Head of PGR.